asterisco
Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος (asterískos, “a little star, asterisk, used in manuscripts to mark passages”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]asterisco m (plural asterischi)
Further reading
[edit]- asterisco in Collins Italian-English Dictionary
Anagrams
[edit]Portuguese
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Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος (asterískos, “a little star, asterisk, used in manuscripts to mark passages”).
Pronunciation
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- (Northeast Brazil) IPA(key): [ˌas.te.ˈɾis.ku]
- Rhymes: -isku
- Hyphenation: as‧te‧ris‧co
Noun
[edit]asterisco m (plural asteriscos)
- asterisk (symbol used to highlight words or sentences)
Further reading
[edit]- “asterisco”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “asterisco” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
- “asterisco”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Late Latin asteriscus, from Ancient Greek ἀστερίσκος (asterískos, “a little star, asterisk”), diminutive of ἀστήρ (astḗr, “star”), used in manuscripts to mark passages.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]asterisco m (plural asteriscos)
Further reading
[edit]- “asterisco”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025
- “asterisco”, in Diccionario de americanismos [Dictionary of Americanisms] (in Spanish), Association of Academies of the Spanish Language [Spanish: Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española], 2010
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- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂stḗr
- Italian learned borrowings from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eHs-
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- Rhymes:Italian/isko
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- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian masculine nouns
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eHs-
- Portuguese terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂stḗr
- Portuguese terms derived from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Portuguese terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Portuguese terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Portuguese terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
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- Rhymes:Portuguese/isku
- Rhymes:Portuguese/isku/4 syllables
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- Portuguese countable nouns
- Portuguese masculine nouns
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *h₂eHs-
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Hellenic
- Spanish terms derived from Late Latin
- Spanish learned borrowings from Late Latin
- Spanish terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *h₂stḗr
- Spanish terms derived from Ancient Greek
- Spanish terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Spanish terms borrowed from Late Latin
- Spanish 4-syllable words
- Spanish terms with IPA pronunciation
- Rhymes:Spanish/isko
- Rhymes:Spanish/isko/4 syllables
- Spanish lemmas
- Spanish nouns
- Spanish countable nouns
- Spanish masculine nouns
- Spanish slang
- Spanish euphemisms
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